This Week's Acquisitions

(Special MLA book exhibit edition.)

• James Robertson, The Fanatic (Fourth Estate, 2000).  A professional "ghost" becomes obsessed with the life of a seventeenth-century Edinburgh prisoner. 
• Oakley Hall, Warlock (NYRB, 2005).  A revisionist Western. 
• L. P. Hartley, The Go-Between (NYRB, 2002).  A young boy finds himself enmeshed in his sister's love affair.
• Christian Isobel Johnstone, Clan-Albin: A National Tale, ed. Anndrew Monnickendam (ASLS, 2003).  Scholarly edition of Johnstone's 1815 novel.
• Louise Welch, Tamburlaine Must Die (Canongate, 2005).  Christopher Marlowe's final days.
• Richard Flanagan, Gould's Book of Fish (Grove, 2001).  A forger sent to Australia for life finds love and fish.
• Vincent Carretta, Equiano the African: Biography of a Self-Made Man (Georgia, 2005).  New biography of the famous ex-slave.
• Ian Haywood, The Revolution in Popular Literature: Print, Politics and the People, 1790-1860 (Cambridge, 2004).  New study of "'cheap' literature."
• Diana Peschier, Nineteenth-Century Anti-Catholic Discourses: The Case of Charlotte Bronte (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005).  Uses Bronte to illuminate popular anti-Catholic attitudes.
• Franz J. Potter, The History of Gothic Publishing, 1800-1835: Exhuming the Trade (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005).  As the title suggests, a study of the early nineteenth-century publishing trade, focusing on cheaper texts.
• Markus Bockmuehl and Donald A. Hagner, eds., The Written Gospel (Cambridge, 2005).  Surveys the writing and dissemination of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.
• Barbara Taylor, Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination (Cambridge, 2003).  New critical study of Wollstonecraft's philosophy.